collected in Dutch Neio Guinea. 239 



separable as a subspecies ; in the male the red on the fore- 

 head and cheeks is o£ a rather dull crimson-scarlet, instead 

 o£ bright scarlet, and the yellow band across iihe crown is 

 distinctly wider. Messrs. Rothschild and Hartert \_cf. Nov. 

 Zool. viii. p. 74 (1901)] seem rather doubtful as to whether 

 C. d. coccineifrons should be allowed to rank as a subspecies, 

 but I think its claims to such rank are perfectly well 

 established, 



CyclopsittacTis melanogenys fuscifrons. 



Cyclopsittacus fuscifrons Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. 

 ix. p. 14(1876). 



Cyclopsittacus mela7iogenys Schleg. ; Salvad. Cat. xx. p. 99 

 (1891) [part. New Gruinea]. 



Cyclopsitta melanogenia fuscifrons van Oort, p. 76 (1909). 



a-g. S ? • Mouth of the Mimika River, llth-15th Dec. 

 1910 and 21st March, 1911. [Nos. 121, 125, 127, 131, 

 133, 143, 1221, C.H.B. G.] 



h-m. (J ? . Parimau, Mimika River, 30th Aug., 2nd Oct., & 

 27th Dec, 1910. [Nos. 38, 40, 288, 2^{), 850, C. H. B. G.'] 



n, 0. c?. Wataikwa River, 22nd & 26th Sept. 1910. 

 [Nos. 1226, 1250, G. C. S.'\ 



p-s. S ? • Canoe Camp, Setakwa River, 7th Dec. 1912 

 & 1st Jan. 1913. [C.B.K.'] 



Iris hazel-brown ; bill sooty or black ; feet ash-grey to 

 pale olive-green. 



I can find no real difference between males of C. melano- 

 genys Schleg. from the Aru Islands and C. m. fuscifrons ^rora 

 Southern New Gruinea. The type-specimen of the latter 

 was procured on the Fly River by D'Albertis. Dr. van 

 Oort has, however, very properly pointed out that the females 

 of the two forms are quite different, C. m. fuscifrons having 

 the breast bright orange as in the male, while in C. melano- 

 genys the chest is greenish, suffused with orange and not very 

 clearly differentiated from the rest of the underparts. 



Nos. 133 and 289, which have the feathers behind the black 

 cheek-spot orange, have been marked as males, but are 

 almost certainlv females. 



